OUR SPONSORS AND PARTNERS

WorldMediaFestival thanks its distinguished sponsors and partners for
their support:

With revenues of 91.1 billion US-Dollars in 2005, IBM is the largest
provider of information technology (IT services, hardware and software),
rental and financing worldwide, as well as the leader in on demand business
solutions. The company has approximately 329,000 employees worldwide and
operates in more than 170 countries. IBM Deutschland GmbH is a national
company of the IBM Corporation and belongs to IBM Central Holding GmbH. With
approximately 22,000 employees, one-quarter of them women, in approximately
40 branch offices, IBM Deutschland GmbH is the largest local company in
Europe. In 2005, some 535 young people took part in training and educational
programs at IBM. IBM today is the only IT company that supplies clients with
a complete range of innovative information technology products, from
hardware, software and services to complex application solutions, outsourcing
projects and skills development. In Germany, the company's activities include
IBM sales and services as well as numerous development tasks in the course of
global company-internal division of labour.www.ibm.com

Germanischer Lloyd is to the forefront whenever it comes to testing,
researching and continual improving safety-relevant factors. For about 140
years Germanischer Lloyd (GL) has been offering its services to the shipping
industry and setting standards in technology, safety and quality. Over the
years, the spectrum of services provided has steadily broadened so that GL
ceased to be a pure ship classification society long ago and is now a
globally operating technical monitoring group. The fields covered range from
classical maritime requirements such as operational soundness analysis and
anti-corrosion advice, to offshore and onshore installations to our facility
services. As a genuinely global player and market leader in this segment GL
offers first-class technical knowledge and expertise within a fast-reacting,
flexible worldwide network. A workforce of around 3000 are at your service
day and night in 173 offices in 75 countries, ready to offer individually
tailored, practical solutions.www.gl-group.com

Focus enhancements, in Europe represented by Como GmbH, presents professional
Media Asset Management Systems. ProxSys™ Media Server MAM-Systems are
turn-key ready IT systems, used to ingest, archive, manage and playback
digital media files. ProxSys MAM systems are modular, extendable and can
store some thousand hours of high-resolution video clips. In addition to the
video material, the system stores customer specific metadata with each file
for better file management and effective retrieval. In particular, the system
automatically generates low-resolution MPEG-4 preview files (proxy file). The
stored files are accessed through an easy-to-use, web-based user interface
with a search function and integrated video player for the low-resolution
proxy files. The ProxSys Media Server offers extensive import and export
modules for digitizing existing video clips or tape material and on for the
distribution of processed files to video tape, DVD, or webformats.www.focusinfo.comwww.como.com

Founded in 1949 HAMBURGER MORGENPOST is one of Germany's leading daily
regional newspapers focusing on subjects like politics, economics, culture,
sports and entertainment.www.mopo.de

Japan Association of Audiovisual Producers, Inc.is the sole officially
authorized organization of short film producers in Japan.
Members are active in the fields of education, culture, science, industry and
communications through every genre of non-theatrical productions. The
principle aims of JAAP are the continued improvement of education, cultural
enrichment and economic development. For this purpose, JAAP, as a public
organization, maintains activities to:

fat provides infrastructure solutions for companies aiming to make a
successful transition from the industrial into the information age. fat
focuses on fundamental infrastructure topics such as security, reliable
hardware solutions, access on demand, virtualization and selected business
software solutions like CRM or ERP.
Our success is build on the skill, knowledge and enthusiasm with which we
create tailor-made solutions for each of our partners. We cultivate the
networking approach as part of our ongoing effort to accurately match the
solutions we provide with the needs of our customers demand.www.fat.de

The Acolori Medienproduktion GmbH is a Hamburg based production and
postproduction facility with a wide range of competences. From corporate
video and in-house TV to major league TV commercials to 3d visualisations,
effects and graphic animations Acolori is an experienced and reliable partner
for national and international productions. With our team of highly trained
TV professionals it is our pleasure to ensure, that you reach your audience
only with the best possible results in video production. In 2008 alone
productions of Acolori won several Art Directors Club Awards, a Cannes Lion,
Silver at the Spotlight Festival and many more.www.acolori.de

CPWISSEN: your partner for video, audio, online, and print corporate media.
We provide current news, background reports and Best Practices. A team of
professional marketing and business communications experts are at your side
for the constantly changing and evolving world of corporate TV, podcasts,
online portals or client magazines, newsletters and industry journals. We
help you to walk the path to success in today's corporate media. In our
portal CPWISSEN.de you will find the latest in corporate communications
development, where we show what accomplished national and international
corporate media is all about today. CPWISSEN is a trademark of the dapamedien
Verlag.www.cpwissen.de

The CTVA is an association to support Corporate TV and moving images
communication. We support the exchange of knowledge about production and
implementation of Corporate TV and foster relationships among specialists. We
see our scope of duty especially in the following fields:

communication and information platform around Corporate TV and moving images

representation of interests for communicators

consulting and evaluation institution

standardisation board

Members are managers and specialists of company communications from among
others Allianz, Bayer, BMW, DaimlerChrysler, Hilti, MAN, O2, Siemens.The CTVA
was founded in 2004 and is a nonprofit association. Please visit our website
for more information or contact our Spokesman Mario Römer M.A.www.CTVA.de

FINESSE, the glossy lifestyle-magazine for Hamburg, comes out quarterly. The
magazine presents exclusive national and international reports and portraits,
especially on Hamburgs companies from the sections gastronomy, fashion,
interior, shopping and beauty. Dominant themes are beauty, travel, nature,
culture and economy as well as sports and recreation.www.finesse-lifestyle.de

Being a full-service company SOGIDIA AG supplies the complete range of
professional digital video asset management. By delivering costumer oriented
services linked with state-of-the-art wideband infrastructures SOGIDA AG
enables clients to fast and easily run a comprehensive management system for
their complete video content without investing extra money or tying-up of
resources. SOGIDIA AG provides the complete bandwidth from file format
independent ingest, via native archiving to a platform independent
distribution. The service portfolio of SOGIDIA AG addresses companies and
organisations of all economic sectors. SOGIDIA AG is based in Cologne,
Germany.www.sogidia.de